All of the news about the Wii this holiday season has been about its scarcity. If anyone has been worrying about location and the Wii, it is about where to find one. While the Nintendo game platform is not new, the company apparently could not keep up with demands this holiday season. However, my crafty […]

Of growing popularity on Facebook is, curiously enough, a game in which one guesses the location of places on a world map. Traveler IQ presents a small-scale map of the world and then prompts you to click where you think is the right location of the city or other place. There is a timer and […]

I don’t eat them, but my kids do. Too sweet for my tastes, but their bright colors sure light up the breakfast table. The current box grabbed my geo-attention – on the back is a map. Again, quite colorful. And an activity to find the lost map. Cool. I sat down with my 7-year old […]

Last week I attended the 45th Annual Conference of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) in Washington D.C. at what locals call “The Hinckley Hilton” because John Hinckley shot President Reagan there in 1981. While that is long forgotten by many, URISA conferences preceded the shooting by 14 years, holding its first conference […]

So Google buys YouTube for $1.65B. YouTube is the popular video site where one can post and view videos of pretty much anything. The site began way back in February 2005 and exploded to become one of the most popular destinations on the Internet. Most of the videos on the site are five minutes or […]